Hi, everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we broke down the
body into basic shapes to help with proportions.
In this lesson, we will be drawing
the human form over our our base.
I'll be teaching you some major anatomical landmarks
that will help you achieve a more realistic
look for the neck and shoulders.
I have this skeleton here to show you how the
muscles lie over each other and insert onto the bone.
These are really the only muscles I bother remembering
the name for, for the rest of the muscles.
I think for the stylized style, it's not
that important to know them in depth.
So let's get started with the neck here.
The first muscle is the sternocleidomastoid.
It starts from the base of the skull, and it
sort of wraps around the neck, and inserts on the
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inner part of the clavicle or the collarbone.
When we are drawing, the sternocleidomastoid can
help us find where the collarbones are.
The next muscle is the trapezius muscle.
It's actually a back muscle, but from the
front view, you can see it on the
shoulders here, and it's going to slope down.
It's actually the muscle that hurts when
you're having shoulder pain from slouching.
So I'm just gonna draw the neck on these two heads.
With the two muscles in mind, you can see how
the sternocleidomastoid helps me locate the collarbone, and also
helps me with the shape of the neck.
And then it kind of slopes more
horizontally, to where the trapezius is.
Back to the skeleton.
Next muscle is the deltoid muscle.
It forms our shoulders, and when you have
a vaccination, it's where the needle is poked.
The deltoid starts at the outer portion of
the clavicle or collarbone, and it inserts at
the upper part of your arm bone.
And under the deltoid muscle is
where our pectoralis major muscle inserts.
You can see that there's two
parts of the pec major muscle.
One part goes under the deltoid muscle, and the other
forms what we know as the pecs or the breast.
Now that we've covered the neck and shoulder muscles, let's
head back to our base shapes that we drew from
the previous lesson and draw on the body lines.
I'll start with the head first, and if you're
not sure what kind of shape to draw, don't
worry, you can just draw an oval first.
We'll be going through the head in the next lessons.
And our neck with the sternocleidomastoid down into the collarbone.
We slope down because of the trapezius muscle, and
then it buldges back out for the deltoid muscles.
When drawing the breasts, we start with an oblique
line, kind of pointing towards the edge of our
shoulders. Because part of the pec major muscle comes
from underneath the deltoid muscle.
Moving on to the torso, we start with a convex
shape, kind of where the ribs push out and then
back in where the smallest part of our waist is
and then back out again for the hips.
I always like to draw the lines of the torso a
bit convex to show that there's some fat over there next
for the legs, because of the muscles there, the inner part
of the leg is going to be more straight and the
outer part is going to be more curved.
The area of the knee here is just going
to be slightly straight, and then it comes out
for the lower calfs.
And the feet.
If you're having some trouble with the shape of the calfs,
I kind of like to see the legs as shishamo.
It's a Japanese pregnant fish.
I think they are so similar because of
the shape, where the inside is kind of
straight and the outside bumps up like that.
It's like the fatty part of our calfs, are the egg sac.
Now let's move on to the arms.
After the bump of the deltoid muscle, it's
fairly straight, and then curved kind of like the calves.
To draw the curves, imagine these two parts are being pulled out,
and this part is being pushed in.
For hands, what I can say is practice makes perfect.
If you're unsure, just look at
a reference and copy them.
After a while, you slowly learn how they
look like and how to draw them.
And our lines are done.
Now let's draw on the lines for the sitting pose.
Everything is pretty much similar to the
front view, but we will be able to see how the
lines of the torso and leg may change .
Again, we'll have the neck muscles, the sternocleidomastoid, and
it goes down to the clavicle or collarbone,
slope down for the trapezius and buldge out
for the deltoid.
Here we can see that the first line below the breast
kind of outlines the rib, and the convex line for the
belly and for the back, the first curve follows the rib,
and the other one just comes down to the butt.
For the legs, the line of the bottom
thigh kind of goes horizontally, then down a little.
And the same outline for the calfs.
Just going to center the belly button a little bit.
And I'll erase these lines that overlap.
So I hope all that was useful.
Anatomy is something we as
artists have to constantly study.
Take a look at the muscles of the human body.
You can Google the ones we mentioned today and try
to imagine how the skin will drape over them.
Just Google the name of the muscle and
lots of useful pictures should show up.
Or you can even study the muscles of the
other parts of the body and think about how
they affect the form of the body.
If you want to study a 3D
model, there's an app called Sketchfab.
It's a platform for 3D art, and a lot of
people have uploaded 3D models of the muscular system.
Just search "muscles" and quite a few should show up.
So, yeah, that can be quite useful for studying anatomy as well.
For the mission complete the lines of the body over
the base shapes we created last lesson.
Today we learned about
some of the major anatomical features of the human body and
how that can translate to our drawing.
In the next lesson, we will be
moving on to how to draw faces.